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Micro BGP Suite history
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This document summarizes a bit of history of the project, it tells you anything
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you didn't want to know about `ubgpsuite` and never cared to ask.
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`ubgpsuite` was created as an evolution over `bgpscanner` and its companion
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library, `isocore`. `bgpscanner` was originally developed by me starting in 2017
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as part of the Isolario Project, under the Institute of Informatics and
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Telematics of the Italian National Research Council
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[IIT-CNR](https://www.iit.cnr.it/).
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`bgpscanner` was covered by the MIT license terms and is still available
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(as of May 2021) at Isolario's
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[website](https://isolario.it/web_content/php/site_content/tools.php).
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Despite the fact that `bgpscanner` code was developed mostly by me, the
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help of the Isolario team, their patience, and their knowledge about BGP's
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nuts and bolts was invaluable to get it rolling.
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By mid 2019, my collaboration with IIT-CNR has ceased.
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In an attempt to further the concepts behind `bgpscanner` and keep experimenting
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with them, I started the `ubgpsuite` project. At this time I was involved with
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[Alpha Cogs](https://www.alphacogs.com), a company I co-founded, so I undertook
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`ubgpsuite` development and got it moving forward with its financial support.
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`ubgpsuite` was born by a partial rewrite of `bgpscanner`, taking advantage of
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the fact that there was no more interoperability constrain with a larger
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project -- `isocore` was originally intended to be used by other
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components inside the Isolario project as well, but that wasn't the
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case anymore. This allowed some minor improvement to the codebase, but the
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overall software architecture was unchanged. Though `ubgpsuite` was relicensed
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under the terms of LGPLv3+ for library code and GPLv3+ for utilities and tools.
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The choice was motivated by my intention to keep the project free
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(as in freedom) forever, considering that the only reason I was able to continue
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developing the code I authored at IIT-CNR and keep the project alive was
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its original open source license.
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Unfortunately a chronical lack of time, due to more pressing company priorities,
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has hit the fan during that year and most of 2020. But finally,
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by the end of 2020, I got the chance to dedicate some time to the project.
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As a matter of fact, I left Alpha Cogs and devoted a bit of myself to
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move `ubgpsuite` and other projects I cared about out of stagnation.
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`ubgpsuite` was then outside Alpha Cogs and became the first of
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DoubleFourteen Code Forge projects -- 1414° for short, an initiative I
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founded to research and develop free software, in the hope of improving
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the software ecosystem.
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On 2021, a total rewrite of `ubgpsuite` was complete and ready for release,
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with this document included. History of the project will thereafter remain
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unread.
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Keep developing the code you love and enjoy,
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---
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Lorenzo Cogotti
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